Comment by woodgala
12 hours ago
It sounds like a fancy way of saying kids will forget how to do math if they use calculators. The flattening of the space makes it hard to find new problems deemed significant? Maybe that went over my head, I’ll concede that point.
What? No, it's nothing like that. It means that if you have a critical insight and you share it out loud, somebody with no particular mathematical inclination can just spend lots of money to steal the credit from you.
It shifts power further from the worker toward those with capital.